Analysis of I can't with you
Chip Fletcher 1985 (Oregon)
I can’t with you
I don’t want to make you happy
I don’t want to look up to you
I don’t need your approval
I don’t need anything from you
I used to abhor what you do
Now I just won’t notice you
I don’t want to be in your will
I will not be at your funeral
The water in me became ice
I don’t want to know when you pass
The ice has numbed me
I was trash to you
Now you are ash to me
You wanted to end me twice
You laughed when I was robbed
Now I am gone to you
I don’t want to think about you
I don’t want to hear from you
I don’t want to hear about you
When your time is up
You never wanted me
Because I looked like him
And now I erase you from my mind
I can clear out my soul
I can take you out of my heart
Because I will never let you be
Any part of my art
Because where I am
Is where you can never be
This is my emphatic goodbye
Chip Fletcher
2-10-2021
| Scheme | A BACAAA XCDXB ABDXA AAAXBXXXEBEXBX XX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 11111110 11111111 1111010 1111011 11101111 1111101 11111011 111111100 01001011 11111111 01111 11111 111111 1101111 111111 111111 11111011 1111111 11111011 11111 110101 011111 011011111 111111 11111111 011110111 101111 01111 1111101 1110101 110 1 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 843 |
| Words | 193 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 6, 5, 5, 14, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 33 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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